After defeating the Eight-Armed Poisonous Octopus, everyone planned to go ashore to rest and recover their magic power and physical condition before going back into the water to explore.

After getting ashore, Qin Feng took out a towel from his storage bag and handed it to Su Chang.

Su Chang glanced at him and politely declined.

"No."

"...Su Chang, we're classmates. You really don't need to be so hostile towards me. It's just a towel."

Qin Feng's voice was hoarse, and his water-soaked body made him look somewhat pitiful.

"No need, it's too much trouble to wipe with a towel."

Chen Chu walked over at this moment, took Su Chang's wrist, and led her aside.

"Light."

The intense sunlight enveloped Su Chang, warming her entire body like a small sun.

"Sister Su, should the light be a little stronger?"

"The temperature could be a little higher."

Su Chang said in a deep voice, and casually tied her soaked hair back up.

"It can't be done in a short time like this," Qin Feng said, still somewhat unconvinced.

Chen Chu stopped Su Chang and spoke first.

"Why do we need to dry it off in a short time? We'll just have to go back down after we recover our soul power, won't we?"

"As long as you stay warm and don't catch a cold, isn't that enough?"

"We'll come up after we get the stuff; there'll be plenty of time to dry it."

"Instead of wasting time talking about this, you should hurry up and recover your magic so we can go down sooner. Otherwise, if someone comes later, are we going to have to give away the rewards we worked so hard to defeat?"

After Chen Chu finished speaking, he pulled Su Chang to sit down under a big tree on the shore.

Qin Feng glared at the two of them, his teeth itching with hatred.

"A younger brother who isn't related by blood, right...."

Under the tree, Chen Chu massaged Su Chang's shoulders, holding the horse talisman in his palm, silently urging it to heal Su Chang.

Almost instantly, the horse talisman made the toxins that Su Chang had just inhaled disappear.

"Sister Su, how much would it cost to buy its personal storage bag?"

"Those kinds of things are very expensive, you could say they're extremely rare. The probability of such items with spatial abilities appearing directly in a secret realm is very low. Most of the items on the market are made from materials with spatial abilities by craftsmen."

"Do you want to?"

Su Chang turned to look at Qin Feng, her eyes filled with doting affection.

"No, no, I was just asking."

Although the system space can only store items produced by the system, it is basically enough.

[Su Chang's inner thoughts: Looks like after this secret realm ends, I'll have to try my luck at the auction. Consider it a nice gift to make up for our first meeting.]

"You don't need to worry about anything else. Our family has enough money to buy a storage device, but the storage space might not be very large."

"Hehe, then thank you in advance, sister."

Seeing Su Chang's thoughts, Chen Chu stopped refusing and agreed with a chuckle.

Because Chen Chu used the horse talisman to remove the toxins from Su Chang's body, her recovery was incredibly smooth.

But the others didn't look so good; they kept using magic to expel the toxins from their bodies.

He was spitting out mouthfuls of black blood.

Fortunately, not much toxin was inhaled; it was all expelled.

"Chen Chu, was it you who cured me of the poison?"

When Su Chang was recovering her soul power, she also realized that she must have ingested toxins when she went into the water, but she suddenly felt that the toxins disappeared when Chen Chu massaged her.

"What toxin? I don't know."

Sorry, I can't reveal the remaining secrets of the talismans yet.

"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't. I know that."

"Alright, you can continue resting here. We're going down now."

"good!"

Chen Chu, holding Xiaobai, waved goodbye to Su Chang.

Qin Feng glanced at Chen Chu from afar.

"What is that strange rune stone?"

"Su Chang didn't vomit blood, could that talisman stone have the ability to detoxify?"

As an archer, he had exceptional eyesight; he had spotted Chen Chu massaging Su Chang from afar.

Su Chang walked to the lakeside and glanced at the others.

She didn't wait for the others to join her, but jumped down first.

It was impossible to divide the spoils. Since the goal was to search for treasure, those who found something good would definitely keep it to themselves and wouldn't share it.

It is precisely because of this that Su Chang is unwilling to join forces with them.

Qin Feng saw this and quickly followed.

Seeing this, the other three students from Linglan Academy, regardless of whether the toxins had been completely removed, also rushed into the lake.

The corpse of the eight-armed poisonous octopus lies at the bottom of this lake, its body still emitting potent toxins.

Because of the toxins, other underwater creatures have also stayed away from this area.

Not far from its corpse was a fishing boat broken in two, with many human-shaped skeletons on the wrecked vessel.

Su Chang swam quickly toward the fishing boat. The rotten wood wasn't hard; he could easily break the planks with just two punches and get inside the boat.

Soon, Su Chang saw a skeleton holding an iron box in its arms.

Su Chang's eyes lit up, and she quickly reached out to open it.

There was a piece of parchment and a strange potion in a glass container, but nothing else.

Just as Su Chang put the things into her arms, she heard someone swimming up from behind her.

"Su Chang, you didn't even wait for me! Didn't we agree to split it equally?"

"Split equally? I don't trust those strangers. They outnumber us and if they really gang up on us, we won't even have a fart left."

"Okay, okay, what you said makes sense, but what are you going to do next? They definitely won't let you off easily."

"Do you need...?"

Before Qin Feng could finish speaking, Su Chang waved his hand in refusal and swam towards the depths of the fishing boat.

"Su Chang, since that's the case, don't blame me."

Qin Feng snorted coldly and took out a bottle of blood-red liquid from his storage bag.

The medicine, reflected in the cold lake water, shimmered with a rather eerie light.

Su Chang, who was swimming ahead of him, was observant and naturally noticed this.

Looking at the fishing boat half-buried in the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, she noticed a half-exposed box on the mud and sand.

Su Chang decided to search the box and then go upstairs; whatever was in the rest, she didn't want it.

After opening the box, she found two pieces of parchment inside. Just as she put them in her pocket and was about to leave, a pungent smell assaulted her nostrils.

Even though she was prepared, the scarlet liquid spread around her and entered her skin.

"Qin Feng! You're asking for death!"

Su Chang cursed angrily, turned around and conjured an ice spike, which he then hurled at Qin Feng.

At the same time, the lake water around Qin Feng gradually froze.

"Sister Su, can you tell who I am?"

"You........." Su Chang's eyes blurred, and she found that Qin Feng in front of her had transformed into Chen Chu.

In that moment of distraction, she was caught by Chen Chu.

Her limbs gradually weakened, and she collapsed into Qin Feng's arms.

"Come on, Sister Su, I'll take you upstairs."

Qin Feng couldn't help but smile. Of course, he wouldn't take Su Chang to the lakeside where they had come down; instead, he wanted to go to the other side.

The wind, under his control, acted like a propulsion system, propelling him swiftly toward the other shore.

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